Shirley Young
Shirley Young is President of Shirley Young Associates, LLC,
a business advisory company, and serves as senior adviser to
General Motors-Asia Pacific. From 1988 until December 31, 1999,
she served as Vice President of General Motors Corp. Her most
recent assignment as Vice President for China Strategic Development
and Asia Pacific Counselor included operational responsibility
for marketing, distribution and sales in China. Prior to this,
she served as Vice President for Consumer Market Development
at General Motors’ headquarters, working across the various
marketing divisions of the company.
A recognized expert in brand development and consumer motivations,
Ms. Young spent her earlier career at Grey Advertising, becoming
Executive Vice President, member of the Agency Policy Council
and President of Grey Strategic Marketing.
Shirley Young serves on the Board of Teletech, Inc. and Salesforce.com
and has served as Director of the Bank of America, Verizon
Corporation, Dayton-Hudson/Target Corporation, Holiday Inn/Promus/Harrah’s,
the Bombay Company and as Vice Chairman of the Nominating Committee
of the New York Stock Exchange.
Ms. Young serves on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy
and its Asia Pacific Council. The first chair of the Committee
of 100, she is currently governor and board director of the
Committee of 100 and chairs the Cultural Institute of the Committee
of 100. She is a founding member of the Committee of 200, an
international organization of leading businesswomen. Ms. Young
was appointed to the President’s Commission on Executive
Exchange and was a member of the Business Advisory Council
for the U.S. State Department Agency for International Development.
In China, Ms. Young is an honorary professor of Tsinghua University,
Beijing; Tongji University, Shanghai; and Huazhong Technology
University, Wuhan; and honorary trustee of Jiao Tong University
in Shanghai. In the U.S., she is a trustee of Interlochen Center
for the Arts and served as a trustee of Wellesley College and
on the Board of Directors of the Associates of the Harvard
Business School, and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts,
as well as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Institute
of Arts, and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Young has received many awards for outstanding efforts
in marketing and advertising. She was named Advertising Woman
of the Year by the American Advertising Federation and received
the Women’s Equity Action Award for Achievement in Advertising.
In 1998, Northwood University named her Outstanding Business
Leader. She was awarded the Catalyst Award for Outstanding
Corporate Director and the Chinese-American Planning Council
named her Woman of the Year. She received a Director’s
Choice Award from the National Women’s Economic Alliance.
Born in 1935, in Shanghai, China, Ms. Young is a 1955 graduate
of Wellesley College, Phi Beta Kappa, and is a recipient of
the Wellesley College Alumna Achievement Award. She has three
sons--David Hsieh, William Hsieh, and Douglas Hsieh. |
